

Education: Hope for a new generation of Maya
by Frances Dixon Isabel was eight years old and crying hard. Another year had passed by and still her father would not allow her to attend primary school. Two years earlier, she had hoped to join her older brother in the local primary school, but Isabel belongs to a culture in which it is common for boys to study and girls to stay at home helping their mothers with household tasks. As more time elapsed in the small remote mountain village where the family lived, she puttered